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Liveblog: The Art of Living Well at Any Age
Submitted by saraneppl on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 8:23am
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Casual liveblogging - some quotes that don't fit in the Twitter feed! (Short, but sweet. Check back at our website at the end of the week for video from The Seattle Channel.)
"If you do not age deliberately, things aren't going to be as good for you as they could be." (Klein)
"The way we have control is we think about what things that are going to be bumps in the road. There always are." (Fordyce)
"What is important is if they have a plan for their lives about what to do in any of those situations with any disability including dementias, and they share that plan with their families and friends, when those crises happen they are able to bounce back from them to the extent that they can." (Fordyce)
-- Fordyce points out that in some circumstances it is significantly cheaper for someone over 75 to take a cab every single day than to pay for a car and insurance. (Based on distance, of course)
"I don't take taxis I have a driver, and the drivers on I-5 said thank god!" (Smart)
Schorr asking about "an operating system" for aging. Klein: "For me, personally, I'm a planner. But I can't adequately prepare for everything that can happen to me, so I have to do a little more work on my attitude of openness to whatever it is that's going to happen."
"The people are saying they look in the mirror and feel no different than they did when they were 20 - they aren't in touch with the ways they have changed." (Klein)
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